Financial Modelling for Social Enterprise
ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE
Key Info | |
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Location | Global |
Learning Mode | Online |
Study Level | Certificate |
Credits | 20 Credits |
Duration | 10 Weeks |
Course Level | Level 6 |
Time Commitment | 8 hours weekly |
Start Date | 8th September, 2020 |
Cost | £1,250 (10 Modules) |
Financial modelling for social enterprise
This programme is valuable for social enterprises of all shapes and sizes, and during all stages of the start-up cycle. It is aimed towards a broad audience including aspiring social entrepreneurs, non-profits who are seeking to to create market-based projects, investors evaluating new businesses, and corporate entrepreneurs who would like to launch ventures aimed at the bottom of the pyramid market. By the end of this course, students will understand how to build a basic financial model from the ground up, starting from a single business unit – a stand-alone profit-center – scaling up. This course allows you to be able to apply this approach to ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialised, and that the business model is built for scalability from the outset.
AN ONLINE EDUCATION THAT SETS YOU APART
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Learn from our industry-leading Faculty Staff who are experts in their field.
The Programme
This course teaches students, including those from non-profit organisations, social entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurs, and social change leaders, how to apply financial modelling and creative approaches to market-based funding in order to successfully scale the impact of their work. This course will benefit organisations of all shapes and sizes, and particularly those in the early stages of development. The programme will show you how to think about and build a basic financial model from the ground up, starting from a single business unit – a stand-alone profit-center – and scaling up. This approach will ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialised, and that the business model is built for scalability from the outset.
GOOD FOR YOU
- Thoroughly understand the concepts of cooperatives and social enterprise.
- Ensure that your product or service can be realistically commercialised and that the business model is built for scalability from the start.
- Understand how to estimate the reach and size of your operational unit and identify what ‘costs at scale’ means to your organisation.
- Understand how to think about and calculate the funding requirements for building and maintaining a capacity that allows you to innovate, learn, and grow your organisation.
- Understand the importance of focusing on financial sustainability at the onset of your venture or a programmatic initiative.
COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1:
Introduction to financial models and financial modelling
Module 2:
Financial sustainability in social organisations
Module 3:
Financial sustainability in social organisations
Module 4:
Leadership in social enterprise
Module 5:
Corporate finance and financial engineering
Module 6:
Entrepreneurial finance, financial instruments & contracts
Module 7:
Identify what ‘costs-at-scale’ means to your venture or initiative
Module 8:
Testing financial and business model
Module 9:
Case Studies: Business model canvas to map out components of your potential company
Module 10:
Seminar in financial modelling
YOUR COURSE CONVENOR

Professor Ola Familoni
Professor of Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship at LSSE
Certification
This course is accredited and, to be awarded credit, you must satisfactorily complete written components. Successful students will receive credit, awarded by the Board of Studies of London School of Social Enterprise and Sustainable Economics and International Affiliates. The award will be presented in the form of Advanced Certificate. Exceptional students will be recognised.

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